Dagara
E916950
Dagara is a Gur language spoken primarily in parts of Ghana and Burkina Faso by the Dagara people.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dagara canonical | 2 |
| Dagara–Birifor | 1 |
| Northern Dagara | 1 |
| Northern Dagara (in some sources) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11302872 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dagara Context triple: [Dagaare language, hasAlternativeName, Dagara]
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A.
Damara people
The Damara people are an indigenous ethnic group of Namibia known for their distinct Khoe language, rich oral traditions, and historical role as pastoralists and miners in the region.
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B.
Rabha
Rabha are an indigenous ethnic group of Northeast India, primarily inhabiting Assam and Meghalaya, known for their distinct Tibeto-Burman language, agrarian lifestyle, and rich folk traditions.
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C.
Lambadi
Lambadi is an Indo-Aryan language variety spoken primarily by the Lambadi (Banjara) community across parts of northwestern and central India.
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D.
Kaska
Kaska is an Athabaskan Indigenous language traditionally spoken by the Kaska Dena people of northern Canada, primarily in the Yukon and northern British Columbia.
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E.
Ndyuka
The Ndyuka are a Maroon people of Suriname and French Guiana, descended from escaped African slaves and known for their distinct language, culture, and semi-autonomous communities in the rainforest interior.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dagara Target entity description: Dagara is a Gur language spoken primarily in parts of Ghana and Burkina Faso by the Dagara people.
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A.
Damara people
The Damara people are an indigenous ethnic group of Namibia known for their distinct Khoe language, rich oral traditions, and historical role as pastoralists and miners in the region.
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B.
Rabha
Rabha are an indigenous ethnic group of Northeast India, primarily inhabiting Assam and Meghalaya, known for their distinct Tibeto-Burman language, agrarian lifestyle, and rich folk traditions.
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C.
Lambadi
Lambadi is an Indo-Aryan language variety spoken primarily by the Lambadi (Banjara) community across parts of northwestern and central India.
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D.
Kaska
Kaska is an Athabaskan Indigenous language traditionally spoken by the Kaska Dena people of northern Canada, primarily in the Yukon and northern British Columbia.
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E.
Ndyuka
The Ndyuka are a Maroon people of Suriname and French Guiana, descended from escaped African slaves and known for their distinct language, culture, and semi-autonomous communities in the rainforest interior.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Gur language
ⓘ
language ⓘ |
| associatedReligion |
Christianity
ⓘ
Islam ⓘ traditional African religions ⓘ |
| belongsToMacroArea | Africa ⓘ |
| country |
Burkina Faso
ⓘ
Republic of Ghana ⓘ
linked to:
Ghana
|
| ethnicGroup |
Dagara people
ⓘ
linked to:
Dagaaba people
|
| family | Gur languages ⓘ |
| glottologCode | daga1275 ⓘ |
| glottologName |
Dagaare
ⓘ
linked to:
Dagaaba
|
| hasAlternativeName |
Dagaare
ⓘ
linked to:
Dagaaba
Dagari ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Central Dagara
ⓘ
Northern Dagara ⓘ
linked to:
Dagara
Southern Dagara ⓘ
linked to:
Southern Dagaare
|
| hasEthnologueEntry | Dagaare language ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticTypology |
SVO word order
ⓘ
agglutinative morphology ⓘ |
| hasLiterature |
folktales
ⓘ
proverbs ⓘ songs ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
tone
ⓘ
vowel harmony ⓘ |
| hasStandardization | orthography for Dagara ⓘ |
| isEndangered | no (relatively vigorous use) ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | dga ⓘ |
| languageBranch |
Niger–Congo
ⓘ
linked to:
Niger–Congo languages
|
| neighboringLanguage |
Dagbani
ⓘ
Frafra ⓘ Mossi ⓘ |
| partOf |
South-Central Gur languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Southern Gur languages
|
| region | West Africa ⓘ |
| spokenBy |
Dagara people
ⓘ
linked to:
Dagaaba people
|
| spokenIn |
Burkina Faso
ⓘ
Ghana ⓘ |
| subfamily |
Northern Gur languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Northern Gur
|
| usedFor |
daily communication
ⓘ
local education ⓘ oral tradition ⓘ |
| usedIn | local radio broadcasting ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin script
ⓘ
linked to:
Latin alphabet
|
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Dagara Description of subject: Dagara is a Gur language spoken primarily in parts of Ghana and Burkina Faso by the Dagara people.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Dagara
linked to: Dagara
linked to: Dagara